late May, 2005
- Rockin' at the Elvis Fest: Berry, Byrd to headline 2005 event. Expect a few changes, including a carnival, to spice things up this year
By M. SCOTT MORRIS
(Daily Journal, May 27, 2005)
"Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" because Chuck Berry is coming to the [Tupelo] 2005 Elvis Presley Festival. An undisputed master of rock music, Berry's hits include "Johnny B. Goode," "School Days," "Maybellene" and "Roll Over Beethoven." He'll be playing those songs and more at 9 p.m. Friday, June 3, on a stage located in the middle of Front Street in Tupelo. ... "I'll be interested to see if he can still do the duck walk," Jim High, assistant festival director, said, referring to one of Berry's signature moves. ...
- 'Arcadia' Star Romances 'Elvis'
(zap2it.com, May 27, 2005)
"Joan of Arcadia" star Amber Tamblyn is in place to co-star in "Elvis and Annabelle," a romantic drama which will also feature Shia LaBeouf. Based on a script by Will Geiger, "Elvis and Annabelle" tells the story of a beauty queen (Tamblyn) who dies on stage just seconds after being crowned Miss Texas. On the embalming table, though, she magically comes back to life and wins the heart of the mortuary worker (LaBeouf) who witnesses the miracle. . ...
- Toyota to hold women's conference featuring Priscilla Presley
(Business First, May 27, 2005)
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky Inc. will hold its annual "In the Interest of Women: A Forum for the Women of Kentucky" conference Oct. 10 and 11. The conference will take place on Oct. 10 at the Lexington Center in Lexington, Ky., and on Oct. 11 at the Galt House Hotel & Suites east tower in Louisville. This year's conference will feature keynote speaker Priscilla Presley. Presley serves as co-executor of the Elvis Presley estate and is an actor and author. The conference is designed specifically for women and includes a continental breakfast, lunch and four workshops from a slate of 12 options. ...
- Robbie 'is best solo live act ever'
(Yahoo! News, May 27, 2005)
Robbie Williams has beaten the likes of Elton John, Madonna, David Bowie and Elvis Presley to the title of Best Live Solo Artist of All Time. Rockers U2 were named Best Live Band of All Time in The Carling Music Survey. They were followed by a host of British bands, like Queen in second place, Oasis (3rd), the Rolling Stones (4th), and Radiohead (5th). Former Take That star Williams beat legends like Bowie into second place, followed by Morrissey, Presley, Elton John and Jimi Hendrix. Paul Weller came seventh, beating Madonna (8th), Michael Jackson (9th) and Bob Dylan (10th). ...
- Songwriter straddles the line between sacred, profane: Peter Himmelman
By Regis Behe
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, May 26, 2005)
In the 1950s, Elvis Presley was accused of performing music that was inspired by the devil. Musician Peter Himmelman agrees rock 'n' roll is far from sacred. "Elvis was the devil's music," he says, referring to Presley's infamous gyrations. "What else can you call it?" Himmelman performs Wednesday with Israeli band The Flying Baby at Club Cafe. "It's as salacious as it gets, as carnal as it comes. Doesn't erase it for me. I happen to like it, and I know exactly what it is. It's not a joke, and there is a profaneness to it." Few mix the sacred with the profane as well as Himmelman. ...
- ELVIS IMPERSONATOR RHYS-MEYERS LANDS M:I 3 ROLE
(contactmusic.com, May 25, 2005)
Irish movie star JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS is set to trade in his ELVIS outfits for a part in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3. The ALEXANDER star, who recently won acclaim for his transformation as ELVIS PRESLEY in US TV miniseries ELVIS, has become the latest name to sign up for a role in the TOM CRUISE sequel. ...
- Elvis Presley the preacher
(femalefirst.co.uk, May 25, 2005)
Priscilla Presley believes Elvis would have quit showbiz to become a preacher. The 60-year-old beauty: "I could see him going into preaching because that's something he really actually wanted to do from a very young age. He loved preachers. Elvis loved to dramatise everything. I think he could see himself doing that." Priscilla, whose daughter Lisa Marie was once married to Michael Jackson, says she would still fancy Elvis if he was alive today. ...
- PRESLEY ILLEGALLY IMPERSONATED POLICE OFFICERS
(www.contactmusic.com, May 25, 2005)
King of rock ELVIS PRESLEY regularly broke the law by impersonating police officers - to secretly fight street crime. The late BLUE SUEDE SHOES superstar fulfilled his private ambition of becoming a cop, by making fake police badges and taking to the streets with a gun and flashing blue light, to tackle illegal activities. Presley's ex-wife PRISCILLA writes in new book ELVIS, BY THE PRESLEYS, "He had a million badges and a blue police light on his car. He liked nothing more than putting that light on his car and pulling people over. He'd walk up to the window, show off his official badge and say, 'Son, you were speeding. Just want to warn you to slow down.' The driver would see him and remain speechless. He liked seeing himself as a lawmaker and protector of the public. He carried guns, and if he happened to see, for instance, two men fighting at a gas station, he'd drive over and stop the fight. His very presence stopped things escalating."
[Presley had genuine sheriff's badges - Presleys in the Press]
- The Presleys remember the King
By Regis Behe
(Yahoo! News / AAP, May 25, 2005)
He may be gone, but rock and roll king Elvis Presley lives on and the ABC is screening a new documentary looking at his life. The show, Elvis By The Presleys, which will be broadcast next month, features interviews with the late singer's wife Priscilla and their daughter Lisa Marie. It makes use of photographs from the Presley family, as well as their home movies, to provide viewers with an intimate look at The King's life. There are also rare interviews with Elvis' first cousin Patsy Presley Geranen and Priscilla Presley's parents, Ann and Paul Beaulieu. Elvis, who died in 1977, continues to have top-ten hits. The remix of A Little Less Conversation, released in 2002, hit the number one spot on the pop charts in over 20 countries, including the US, UK and Australia.
- Mariah's Sweet 16th #1 with ``We Belong Together'' - Shares Pantheon with The Beatles & Elvis Presley!
Source: Island Def Jam Music Group
(Yahoo! Fomamce / BUSINESS WIRE, May 25, 2005)
The Emancipation of Mimi Certified Double-Platinum
TV performance on "Wildest Dream" finale of The Oprah Winfrey Show this week, to be followed by MTV Movie Awards (June 9th) and 5th annual BET Awards (June 28th)
Performer and songwriter Mariah Carey secures her place as the #1 most successful female artist of all time as "We Belong Together" becomes her 16th song to top the Billboard Hot 100. This positions Mariah as the only artist in contention to surpass the Beatles (with 20 #1's) and Elvis Presley (18 #1's) in the modern era. (With 62 total weeks of #1 hits since 1990, Mariah also ranks 2nd only to Elvis, with 80 weeks.) This monumental achievement comes as Mariah's brand new Island Def Jam album, the top 5 THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI, crosses the RIAA double-platinum mark of 2 million units, just 6 weeks after its stunning #1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart. ...
- LEWIS' FIRST CONCERT MADE HER THINK OF ELVIS
(www.contactmusic.com, May 25, 2005)
Actress-turned-rocker JULIETTE LEWIS was left spellbound at her first gig, as watching hip-hop icon LL COOL J perform made her feel like she was at an ELVIS PRESLEY concert. The NATURAL BORN KILLER star, who now performs with her sleaze rock band JULIETTE + THE LICKS, was particularly impressed with LL Cool J's stage act.
- COMMENTARY: WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, DADDY-DO DEWEY?
BySHERMAN WILLMOTT
(Memphis Flier, May 25, 2005)
It's been a great year for "Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips. The Memphis dj legend died thirty-seven years ago in 1968, but in this year already, he has received a new tombstone (compliments of Cody Whitehead of Corinth, Mississippi) and has had his incredible life story immortalized in a new biography by Memphis writer and historian Louis Cantor. Cantor's second book, "Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'N' Roll Deejay" just came out on the University of Illinois Press. Previous to Dewey, Cantor wrote the excellent "Wheelin' on Beale: How WDIA-Memphis Became the Nation's First All-Black Radio Station and Created the Sound that Changed America". Dewey Phillips is a true legend in a city that has had several. ... "Dewey and Elvis" is another fine read for Memphis music fans, suffering only from the inevitable overlap in (m)any Memphis music histories written today concerning the '50s, Memphis r&b, early rock 'n' roll, and Elvis Presley. Since Phillips and Elvis Presley lives were intertwined -- and both would be much less known without the other -- Phillips' most famous escapades have been covered in Peter Guralnick's two Elvis books. Cantor takes stories in Phillips' life a bit further than Guralnick and does a passionate job placing Phillips in the proper place in r&b and rock and roll history. ...
- Nashville is one hoarse town
By Tom Leonard
(Telegraph, May 25, 2005)
It may be the capital of country music and the town where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan recorded some of their finest tunes, but singing in Nashville is actually a doggone bad idea. Voice experts and singers say that the town, which sits in a humid, heavily forested bowl where pollens and pollutants get trapped in the air, is so unbearable for allergy sufferers that some artists have either had to delay their recording sessions or move elsewhere. ...
- TV Pitchman for Frosted Flakes Dies at 91
(ABC News / Associated Press, May 25, 2005)
Thurl Ravenscroft, who provided the rumbling "They're Grrrrreeeat!" for Kellogg's Tony the Tiger ads and voiced a host of Disney characters, has died. He was 91. Ravenscroft died Sunday of prostate cancer, said Diane Challis Davy, director of Laguna Beach's Pageant of the Masters. For more than 50 years, Ravenscroft was the affable voice behind Tony the Tiger, TV's popular cartoon pitchman for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. ... Born in Norfolk, Neb., Ravenscroft moved to California in 1933 to study art. By the mid-1930s he was appearing regularly on radio, and by the late-1930s he was singing backup for Bing Crosby. After military service during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, where he sang with the Mellomen, a group that performed with Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Elvis Presley.
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